GE Strong As Steel – A Good Laugh And A PRIZE!
Posted on June 24, 2009 by Miss Britt in Health, Home
I get a lot of emails from PR people who are both very serious and very excited about their very serious and important products.
I usually roll my eyes because, really? We’re jumping up and down about razor blades? No. Not really.
Not that we don’t need razor blades, mind you – but let’s not pretend that OUR LIVES! THEY ARE CHANGED! BY THIS AWESOME RAZOR BLADE! THAT I HAVE BEEN COVETING!
This is not, by the way, a post about razor blades.
What this is, in fact, is a post about a marketing campaign that made me laugh so hard that I couldn’t wait to share it with you.
Ladies (and gentleman), I give you the latest craze in workout videos…
Strong As Steel from Strong As Steel on Vimeo.
My witty and insightful commentary – after the jump.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
And also?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA
Ha.
I don’t know who at GE came up with this idea, but I would like to buy them a drink. Or two. And then I want to drag them into my kitchen and make them teach me how to WORKOUT! USING NOTHING BUT MY STOVE! AND REFRIGERATOR!
And then I’ll buy them another drink and convince them to replace my dishwasher.
Do you know the funniest part of this whole promotion – I mean, besides Alison Sweeney doing fridge curls on camera?
I actually considered for a moment buying the DVD. Oh, yes, you can buy the DVD. I mean, I do have a kitchen and a desperate need to firm up…
Yeah, OK. Back to watching the video and laughing hysterically.
While you can buy the DVD, the point of this whole campaign is to promote GE’s stainless steel appliances. Starting now (OK, probably earlier than now), you can buy GE Stainless Steel Appliance for the same price of their regular appliances until July 6, 2009 at participating retailers.*
I am not (knock on wood) in the market for new appliances – but if I was, I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be all about making it look like I had spent money on fancy, schmancy stainless steel ones without actually having to spend more money.
If you, on the other hand, happen to be in the market for new appliances, you can find out about GE’s stainless steel promotion here.
Now, on to THE PRIZE!
GE is not, unfortunately, letting me giveaway appliances. And if they were, I would probably rig the contest so my cat won them. Because I am ethical.
Instead, GE is letting me giveaway a REALLY FANCY YOGA MAT AND CARRIER.
Which is totally just as awesome as a dishwasher in some circles.
HOW TO WIN THE FANCY GE YOGA MAT AND CARRIER:
>>Leave a comment telling me what at-home exercise you do.
>>You must comment with a valid email address because that’s how I’ll notify the winner.
>>Contest (and comments) will be open from now until midnight EDT on Friday June 22 June 26.
>>Winner will be chosen at random and contacted via the email address they used to enter.
>>GE (or someone who works for them) will be responsible for sending out your prize. Lucky, you.
Ready, set, go**….
*And no one paid me to say that. Which is so sad, because look at how awesome that sentence was.
**I love how I am creating all of this drama! And excitement! And anticipation! For a yoga mat!
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by Miss Britt in Health, Home
Hahahahaha! Nice!
Um, my exercise at home is spent cleaning and cleaning and cleaning.
Sometimes, doing yoga, too, oddly enough.
Mostly cleaning, though. Laundry, stairs, vacuuming, lifting, cat box cleaning, cooking, lugging groceries, etc. The normal.
(Oh, but also my microwave lifts. Have you seen my arms? Built by Tappan. Man! My microwave is old!)
Do you know Logans pre-school teacher, Miss F? she sent us a note home last week telling us that on friday june 22 we were going to the splash park.
Unfortunately, we never got to go to the splash park. Im not sure if it is because it POURED that day or becuase the 22nd was a Monday. Sigh.
Also. I would totally enter this. Is it US only? My “At Home Exercises” include lifting a FULL eight ounce coffee mug, lugging sweaty boy clothes up stairs, and chasing puppies who like to chew shoes.
@bluepaintred, hahahahaha – oops!
Hmmm. A yoga mat, huh? Uh…can I use it as a doorstop? Or a mat under the dog dishes? YES! That’s it!
I would say that I *unload* the dishwasher as my routine. LOL
but squeezes and leg lifts whi;e on the puter and during uhhuh squueze those muscles..if i hung on the appliances there would be broken appliances- mine stuff is old
I do the Wii Fit and the Jillian Michaels Fitness thingy for Wii…..The Wii fit requires some yoga so this would be great! Im also kick butt at Rockband and guitar hero….but they don’t require a mat
I use my Wii Fit, EA Sports Active, my balance ball and a yogalates DVD at home. And it would be the most fabulously dramatic and exciting yoga mat ever won on the history of the internet. No?
Hahaha, OMG. That is crazy! Hilarious, but crazy!
My home workout is usually one of the following DVDs: Walk Away The Pounds, Just My Size Yoga or Budokon for Beginners
Okay I LOL’d at how annoyed the first 3 people looked in the video…all the acting is hilarious.
My home workout is walking, running and cycling. But I’m TOTALLY gonna add fridge curls to that! bwahahaha!
Sex.
P.S. – I already have a yoga mat. What I need is a new washer and dryer.
P.P.S. – How am I supposed to take this video seriously?
I would love to say that loading and unloading the dishwasher is my exercise, but I don’t have a fucking dishwasher in my This Old House. So, is handwashing dishes an exercise? Because I do a hell of alot of that. I wonder if standing on a yoga mat while washing the dishes would be some sort of zen like experience?
@ballerinatoes, WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!
Does a trip from the sofa to the fridge count?
My at-home workout consists of chasing my ferrets up and down the stairs a couple of times a day. It works wonders for the glutes (going up) and quads(going down) and gives you short bursts of cardio from both stair climbing and laughing.
I highly recommend it.
Oh, and I get an upper body workout from removing Daisy ferret from my GE dishwasher. She weighs less than a pound, but I do have to keep pulling the rack out, which works the triceps.
This videos is too funny.
Hahahahaha! Seriously? So funny.
My at-home workout consists of lifting the laundry basket. But it’s really, really heavy. Really.
I have to say I love, love, love my GE fridge, which replaced the Frigidaire that crapped out after only 2 years. But I’m glad I got one that only had stainless accents because the last one was all stainless and it was a PITA to keep clean.
p.s. I have approximately 1,000 (ok, 5) yoga mats so I don’t need to be included in the contest.
I don’t need a yoga mat, but for a whole thirty seconds I thought that video was serious. And then I had to convince myself that it just had to be a joke. The fact that I’m on pain medication might have a lot to do with this. (:
That is just ridiculous.
As for my work out, babysitting and yoga. The yoga has become difficult, though, since my jerk ex-boyfriend stole my yoga mat. I would love to have a free replacement big time.
hello!
I LOVE to do yoga, and strength training at home. my map really sucks! LOL i have lost 20 lbs so far and i look forward to doing more! funny vid by the way!
-Sara
@sara, lol! mat! not map!
Love it ! At home, I try to switch up my workout routine because I get bored easily. So one day I would do squats while I am watching “How I met your mother” and during breaks in between, I would do some basic yoga stand-up poses. Then I would do some leg stretches towards the end of each of my exercise routine.
I’ve always done lunges, squats, etc. with the help of my kitchen counters, refrigerator etc. Now days since I have a bad back, I use my bed to do yoga poses and exercises. It’s much more comfortable than the floor!